Home of Braehead, the River Clyde and the House of Stewart, Renfrewshire hosts a lot to its residents. We’re looking for foster families across Renfrewshire in towns such as Paisley to look after the area’s children and young people.
As a Scottish-owned fostering service, we’re proud to support foster carers of Renfrewshire. Our children and young people range in age from 0-18. Sometimes our children and young people need to live with a foster family for a few weeks or sometimes they need long term support.
Children are referred to us from your local authority, and we strive to ensure the very best matching of foster carers for the young people in our care.
Some of our Foster Carers offer short or medium-term placements, looking after a number of children over time, while others offer long term placements. Whether short or long term, we regularly get feedback from Foster Carers that fostering is among the most rewarding and fulfilling things they have ever done in their lives.
Foster carers in Renfrewshire can benefit from 24/7 support, excellent training and the knowledge that we’ll be there for you so that you can help shape the lives of children in your area. Care Visions Fostering Scotland are proud to have established network of foster families in Renfrewshire, who regularly meet for support groups in your area.
Our supervising social workers and therapeutic family workers have a wealth of knowledge and experience, with many of them working with children and young people for over twenty years. We’re proud to have great links across Scotland for foster carers to check in with other foster carers in our organisation and learn from each other.
Every fostering family is different, but what they all have in common is a shared goal of changing a young life and providing a stable and loving environment for young people to thrive in. All applications in Renfrewshire are considered, regardless of age, gender, martial status, religious persuasion, sexual identity or nationality.
No formal qualifications are required to become a foster carer, instead we’ll give you the tools and training to build on your own life experience to provide the very best care for our young people.
With the cost of living increasing and the new world post Covid we understand that there is a lot more to think about when considering to foster a child. Whatever your situation, you could considering short term fostering as a why of seeing if fostering is for you. This can be a doorway into longer term fostering if you so wish, however if you want to just keep with short term fostering then that is not a problem.
If you are looking to foster shortly then we can help you achieve this if you can communicate with us regularly every week. We use phone, Whatsapp, Facetime, Zoom - whichever technology works for you to help you along your journey to becoming a foster parent.
At Care Visions Fostering Scotland, we’ll be with you every step of the way on your fostering journey. So, if you live in Renfrewshire and you’d like to become a foster carer, So why not get in touch today and lets talk.
You can also have a look at our Changing the face of fostering page to get a quick picture of what fostering is and why you should foster with us!
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